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GARGANTUAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Of great mass; huge and bulky

Example:

jumbo shrimp

Synonyms:

elephantine; gargantuan; giant; jumbo

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Derivation:

Gargantua (a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name)

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